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Top: A-10 Thunderbolt IIs parked on the taxiway of King Fahd Int'l Airport Bottom: A MIM-104 Patriot missile battery near the airport. The terminal building and mosque can be seen in the background. The airport is named for King Fahd (r. 1982–2005), under whose reign it was constructed and inaugurated. Design of the airport building began in ...
This is a list of the busiest airports in the Middle East (handling more than 5,000,000 passengers per year), ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers. The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year.
The King Fahd Satellite Telecommunications City is a satellite communications facility located between Mecca and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The facility is the control center for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization , one of the largest SATCOM operators in the Middle East/North Africa region. [ 1 ]
AlUla International Airport [1] Buraidah: Al-Qassim: OEGS ELQ Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport: Dammam: Eastern: OEDF DMM King Fahd International Airport: Jeddah: Makkah (Mecca) OEJN JED King Abdulaziz International Airport: Ha'il: Ha'il: OEHL HAS Ha’il International Airport: Medina (Madinah) Al Madinah: OEMA MED
Dhahran is unusual in that a large portion of it is made up of gated areas including Saudi Aramco's headquarters and residential camp, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (built by Aramco) and the King Abdulaziz Air Base. Dhahran is also home to the Mall of Dhahran, one of the biggest shopping complexes in the Eastern Province.
Saudi Aramco has a separate terminal at the King Fahd International Airport for their employees and aircraft with scheduled flights to Shaybah, Yanbu, Jeddah and other sites where the company is active. Built in the 1940s, the King Abdulaziz Sea Port, located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is the second largest and second busiest port in ...
The airport has one of the world's tallest air traffic control towers, and two parallel runways, each 4,260 metres (13,980 ft) in length. It is the second largest airport by land area in the world, after King Fahd International Airport. [4] It is one of the busiest airports in the Middle East.
The city is served by King Fahd International Airport. Although there is a small airport in the city, Ras Tanura Airport, it is for the exclusive use of Saudi Aramco, mainly helicopters. The distance from the city center to the terminal in Dammam Airport is approximately 50 km (31 mi).